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Middle Fiction (8-12) > Thriller

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The Dog Runner by Bren MacDibble

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Category: Middle Fiction (8-12)

From the author of the multi-award-winning and bestselling How To Bee comes an intense and thrilling new adventure. 'We're gonna starve if we stay here,' Emery said. 'If we're gonna go, best go now.' And he said it like going was something easy. Like all we have to do is walk away. Ella and her brother Emery are alone in a city that's starving to death. If they are going to survive, they must get away, upcountry, to find Emery's mum. But how can two kids travel such big distances across a dry, barren, and dangerous landscape? Well, when you've got five big doggos and a dry-land dogsled, the answer is you go mushing. But when Emery is injured, Ella must find a way to navigate them through rough terrain, and even rougher encounters with desperate people... ...Show more

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Stormbreaker (20th Anniversary Edition Alex Rider #1) by Anthony Horowitz

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Category: Middle Fiction (8-12) | Series: Alex Rider

They told him his uncle died in an accident. He wasn't wearing his seat belt, they said. But when fourteen-year-old Alex finds his uncle's windshield riddled with bullet holes, he knows it was no accident. What he doesn't know yet is that his uncle was killed while on a top-secret mission. But he is abo ut to, and once he does, there is no turning back. Finding himself in the middle of terrorists, Alex must outsmart the people who want him dead. The government has given him the technology, but only he can provide the courage. Should he fail, every child in England will be murdered in cold blood. This first book in a thrilling series by British writer Anthony Horowitz will have pulses racing from start to finish. ...Show more

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The Book of Chance by Sue Whiting

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Category: Middle Fiction (8-12)

Chance is a black-and-white thinker until she realises that sometimes there are shades of grey. Chance is in Year 7 and thinks she has it all - a loving mother, dog Tiges, best friend and almost-sister next door. But when a reality TV team makes over her house, she discovers newspaper cuttings from the past that cause her to question the world as she knows it and everyone in it. Then she finds herself caught between two realities, identities and worlds. Face-to-face with the truth, Chance has a very difficult decision to make, which almost splits her in two. This powerful story explores what is true and what is fake in today's world. And while Chance is all about the truth, she ponders whether "Maybe being truthful was really just a big lie." ...Show more

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TrooFriend by Kirsty Applebaum

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A topical and sinister middle-grade novel about artificial intelligence. Imagine having the perfect friend, one who never steals, lies or bullies. Now you can, with the TrooFriend 560, the latest in artificial intelligence! What can go wrong with a robot buddy? Especially one that's developing human ch aracteristics and feelings, and who has just run away with her human? ...Show more

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The Tell by Martin Chatterton

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Category: Great Fiction for Grades 5&6

The world turns on moments like these. Crossroad moments; a toss of the coin . . . I see half my face in deep shadow, eyes glittering like diamonds, the resemblance to my father never stronger. Rey Tanic is not like other 14 year olds. His dad is a mafia boss. His dad also in jail. When Rey's life explo des, every decision he makes will shape the rest of his life. How far does the apple really fall from the tree? ...Show more

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Detention by Tristan Bancks

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Category: Middle Fiction (8-12)

A daring escape. A school lockdown. A thrilling chase. What would you risk to save a life?Share thisSima and her family are pressed to the rough, cold ground among fifty others. They lie next to the tall fence designed to keep them in. The wires are cut one by one.When they make their escape, a guard ra ises the alarm. Shouting, smoke bombs, people tackled to the ground. In the chaos Sima loses her parents.Dad told her to run, so she does, hiding in a school and triggering a lockdown. A boy, Dan, finds her hiding in the toilet block.What should he do? Help her? Dob her in? She's breaking the law, but is it right to lock kids up? And if he helps, should Sima trust him? Or run?THIS MOMENT, THESE DECISIONS, WILL CHANGE THE COURSE OF THEIR LIVES. ...Show more

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Cloudburst: A Jack Courtney Adventure (#1) by Wilbur Smith (with Chris Wakling)

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Category: Middle Fiction (8-12) | Series: JACK COURTNEY ADVENTURE

Brand new Wilbur Smith series for readers of 11+ - starring fourteen-year-old Jack Courtney. Jack Courtney has lived in London his whole life. But this summer his parents are travelling to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a gorilla conference, and they've promised to take Jack and his friends wi th them. When his parents go missing in the rainforest, abducted by mercenaries, nobody seems to have any answers. Jack is pretty sure that it's got something to do with the nearby tantalum mines, but he needs to prove it. Along with Amelia and Xander, Jack must brave the jungle to save his parents. Standing in his way is a member of his own family - Caleb Courtney. There are western gorillas, forest elephants and hippos. But there are also bandits, mercenaries and hostile tribes. The three friends will need their wits about them if they are not only to save Jack's parents, but their own lives too. ...Show more

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Gone by Michael Grant

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Category: Thriller | Series: Gone Novels (Paperback)

From the co-creator of the bestselling "Animorphs" comes a gripping new series in which everyone disappears in an flash on the day they turn 15. It's a terrifying new world, and time is running out.

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The Ruins of Gorlan (#1 Ranger's Apprentice) by John Flanagan

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Category: Middle Fiction (8-12) | Series: The Ranger's Apprentice

TheNew York Timesand Australian mega-bestselling series about Will and his friends from Castle Redmont starts here!Will is small for his age, but agile and energetic. All his life, he has dreamed of becoming a great knight like the father he never knew, so he is devastated when he is rejected as an appr entice to Castle Redmont's Battleschool. Instead he is apprenticed to Halt, the mysterious Ranger whose uncanny ability to move unseen is thought to be the result of black magic. Reluctantly, Will learns to use a Ranger's secret weapons- a bow and arrow, a mottled cloak and a stubborn little pony. It may not be the sword and battlehorse he longs for, but when Will and Halt set out on a desperate mission to prevent the assassination of the King, Will finds that a Ranger's weapons are not so useless after all . . . ...Show more

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Nightshade (Alex Rider #13) by Anthony Horowitz

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Category: Middle Fiction (8-12)

Get ready for action, adrenaline and adventure in this explosive, brand new Alex Rider mission by bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz. In this adrenaline-fuelled adventure in the number one bestselling series, Alex Rider is sent by MI6 Special Operations to infiltrate a new and sinister organization kn own only as Nightshade. Alex is on his own, with the fate of thousands of people resting in his hands. ...Show more

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